Conservative Treatment of a Floating Mural Thrombus in the Descending Aorta

A 70-year-old woman was referred to the department of thoracic and vascular surgery after a floating mural thrombus was found in the distal aortic arch with extension into the proximal descending aorta. Imaging and clinical examination did not show signs of embolization and treatment with aspirin an...

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Autores principales: Goedemé, Johannes, Berzenji, Lawek, Nicolay, Simon, Hendriks, Jeroen M.H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2021
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8489990/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34607384
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1736370
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author Goedemé, Johannes
Berzenji, Lawek
Nicolay, Simon
Hendriks, Jeroen M.H.
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description A 70-year-old woman was referred to the department of thoracic and vascular surgery after a floating mural thrombus was found in the distal aortic arch with extension into the proximal descending aorta. Imaging and clinical examination did not show signs of embolization and treatment with aspirin and low–molecular weight heparin was started. Follow-up after 2 weeks and 6 months showed a complete resolution of the aortic mural thrombus.
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spelling pubmed-84899902021-10-06 Conservative Treatment of a Floating Mural Thrombus in the Descending Aorta Goedemé, Johannes Berzenji, Lawek Nicolay, Simon Hendriks, Jeroen M.H. Aorta (Stamford) A 70-year-old woman was referred to the department of thoracic and vascular surgery after a floating mural thrombus was found in the distal aortic arch with extension into the proximal descending aorta. Imaging and clinical examination did not show signs of embolization and treatment with aspirin and low–molecular weight heparin was started. Follow-up after 2 weeks and 6 months showed a complete resolution of the aortic mural thrombus. Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2021-10-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8489990/ /pubmed/34607384 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1736370 Text en The Author(s). This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, permitting unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction so long as the original work is properly cited. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Conservative Treatment of a Floating Mural Thrombus in the Descending Aorta
title_sort conservative treatment of a floating mural thrombus in the descending aorta
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